Chrestotes lapidea

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChrestotesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 2.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 309.8 Mya and 307.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Chrestotes lapidea on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group2
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The named rock units Chrestotes lapidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chrestotes lapidea and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Chrestotes lapidea and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Acantherpestes major2 sites
- Architarbus rotundatus2 sites
- Eoscorpius carbonarius2 sites
- Euphoberia armigera2 sites
- Euphoberia granosa2 sites
- Palaeocampa anthrax2 sites
- Acantherpestes inequalis1 site
- Acanthotelson inaequalis1 site
- Acanthotelson stimpsonii1 site
- Adiphlebia lacoana1 site
- Aethophlebia singularis1 site
- Agogoblattina occidua1 site
- Americlus americanus1 site
- Anthracerpes typus1 site
- Anthracothremma robusta1 site
- Anthrapalaemon gracilis1 site
- Aphantomartus pustulatus1 site
- Archaeologus falcatus1 site
- Archiulus glomeratus1 site
- Archoblattina scudderi1 site
- Axiologus thoracicus1 site
- Belinurus lacoei1 site
- Catadyesthus priscus1 site
- Cheliphlebia carbonaria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Chrestotes lapidea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV1
- Supplement to descriptions of articulates. Descriptions of fossil insects found on Mazon Creek, and near Morris, Grundy Co. Ill1
Each of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Chrestotes lapidea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Chrestotes lapidea was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itChrestotes through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1868